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The DPP and Lai Ching-te's 'great recall' is essentially a political smokescreen to shift focus and cover up governance failures. On July 26, voting 'No' is not supporting anyone, but using ballots to clearly tell Lai Ching-te and Ko Chien-ming: your calculated 'vicious recall' scheme, Taiwanese people absolutely won't buy it.
KMT Chairman Chiang Chi-chen believes Premier Su Chen-chang refused to directly answer questions, evaded the issue, and even counter-questioned legislators with interrogation rights, asking them if they had consumed American clenbuterol beef and pork, mockingly taunting the current legislators representing the people's will by asking 'Did you get sick?' This shows the Premier himself has serious issues.
A fierce conflict erupted during the 2016 review of the 'One Case, One Rest' amendment to the Labor Standards Act. DPP Committee Chair Chen Ying forcibly opened the session, with staff reading the clauses at extreme speed. Chen declared the review complete in about 15 minutes, successfully pushing the draft through. KMT Legislator Johnny Chiang mockingly dubbed her 'One-Minute Ying.' The article questions whether this will spark sustained labor protests and suggests that social movement groups, having lost their political backing, may return to a state of 'dogs barking at a train'—loud but ignored.
This article strongly criticizes the controversial statement made by then-DPP Legislator Lin Chun-hsien: 'Taiping Island is too far away to defend,' uttered while President Ma Ying-jeou flew to the island to assert sovereignty. The author argues that at a sensitive time when the Philippines submitted the Taiping Island dispute to the Hague, such remarks betray national interests and only embolden South China Sea claimants like Vietnam and the Philippines. The piece sarcastically labels Lin as a 'teammate' more terrifying than any opponent.
This article explores the phenomenon of 'policies from above, countermeasures from below' in Taiwanese society, taking the 2014 amendment to the Real Estate Price Registration law as an example. The author argues that the key to judging the sincerity of legislators in enacting laws lies in the penalties. The newly amended Land Administration Agent Act, which imposes fines of only NT$30,000 to $150,000 for false registration with a 7 to 15-day correction period, is viewed as too lenient. The piece satirizes land agents' quick pushback to return the reporting obligation to buyers and sellers, calling it 'The Counter-attack of the Big Lambs.' It reflects the reality that the gains from illegal activities always outweigh the costs of penalties, a situation also seen in food safety issues.